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Are spenders doomed to a life of bad decision-making when it comes to saving? I, a self-admitted spender, believe that it is within our ability to change. Thank goodness experts agree that with a bit research and some stick-to-it-iveness, even full-blown spenders can be cured.
It seems that most folks fall into one of two camps: fastidious savers or unstoppable spenders.
The real question is: Are spenders doomed to a life of bad decision-making when it comes to saving? I, a self-admitted spender, believe that it is within our ability to change. Thank goodness experts agree that with a bit research and some stick-to-it-iveness, even full-blown spenders can be cured.
Getting with the program
So what does it take to get spenders on the savings train? According to personal finance expert Manisha Thakor, the change happens when there is a forced transformation (think job loss) or when folks become aware of the relationship between money and work. While a forced transformation usually only results in a temporary modification of spending habits, knowing how many hours you need to work to buy something results in consistent mindful spending. Logging your spending can help, too. "I often find that when people simply write down everything they spend for a month … that one act can cause a massive shift in behavior, because it makes the act of spending more mindful," says Thakor, co-author of "Get Financially Naked."
Save every day
"With any kind of change, the keys are repetition, not trying to do too much at once and having some sort of touchstone or behavior modification reminder," Thakor says. She suggests finding one act of saving do each day for 30 days. That means calling creditors for lower interest rates or refilling reusable water bottles instead of buying new; one thing each day. "The repetitive act of taking one step forward is establishing this new behavior each day and is incredibly powerful," Thakor says.
A bit at a time
Don't bite off more than you can chew. "If you try to solve all problems at once, odds are you'll feel overwhelmed and just give up," Thakor says. For me, this means taking money away from kids' items and gourmet foods in order to put more into savings.
Find a spot on the horizon
Have you heard this phrase in yoga class? It works in personal finance as well. Figure out your pre-tax hourly wage and focus on it when considering purchases. "Next time you see that 'must-have-it's-screaming-my-name-thing-a-ma-jiggy' for $200 ... do the math," says Thakor. "Is it REALLY worth 10 hours slogging it out at the office? Maybe yes, maybe no ... but now you have a touchstone."
Molly Logan Anderson is a freelance writer who lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband Mike, three kids and black lab. Join Molly on her family's journey of living a frugal life and making financial freedom their reality.

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Senate Hearing Wednesday: The 'School to Prison Pipeline'
I'll be testifying before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights this Wednesday, at 2:00pm. The hearing will investigate the "school to prison pipeline"—the pattern of flawed disciplinary policies and practices, including "zero tolerance," that has been widely faulted for unnecessarily pushing students out of school and into the juvenile justice system.
In addition to summarizing some important recent research on the subject, I'll also be describing an alternative discipline policy that has shown enormous success in one of the most violent, crime‐ridden districts in the country, and what Congress can do to encourage the adoption of such policies.
The hearing is open to the public (Dirksen building, room 226), and I'll be posting my written testimony afterwards.


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NEW YORK (AP) -- Twitter has set a price of $26 for its initial public offering of stock, which means the company's shares can begin trading Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange.
The price values Twitter at more than $18 billion based on its outstanding stock, options and restricted stock that'll be available after the IPO. That's more than Macy's, which has a market capitalization of $17 billion, and Bed Bath & Beyond, which is around $16 billion.
The pricing means the short messaging service will raise $1.8 billion in the offering, before expenses.
The Twitter bird logo is on an updated phone post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Wednesday Nov. 6, 2013. Twitter is expected to price its initial public offering some time Wednesday night. The company recently raised its price range to $23-$25 per share, following strong investor demand, and is expected to start trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Twitter, which has never turned a profit in its 7 years in existence, had originally set a price range of $17 to $20 per share for the IPO, but that was an obvious lowball designed to temper expectations. It was widely expected that the price range would go higher. Back in August, for example, the company priced some of its employee stock options at $20.62, based on an appraisal by an investment firm and it's unlikely to have lost value since.
On Monday, Twitter raised the price range to $23 and $25 per share, signaling an enthusiastic response from prospective investors. The San Francisco-based company is offering 70 million shares in the IPO, plus an option to buy another 10.5 million. It is set to begin trading Thursday morning under the symbol "TWTR."
Twitter's public debut is the most highly-anticipated IPO since Facebook's in May 2012.
But Twitter has valued itself at just a fraction of Facebook and has sought to cool expectations in the months and weeks leading up to the offering. With that, the San Francisco-based company is likely hoping its stock will avoid the fate Facebook's shares, which didn't surpass their IPO price until more than a year after the offering.
Tempering expectations has been a big theme in the weeks leading up to Twitter's IPO. The company has tried to avoid the trouble that plagued Facebook's high-profile IPO nearly 18 months ago. Facebook's public debut was marred by technical glitches on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in May of 2012. As a result, the Securities and Exchange Commission fined Nasdaq $10 million, the largest ever levied against an exchange. Those problems likely led Twitter to the New York Stock Exchange.
Earlier on Wednesday, Barclays Capital said Twitter had hired it to be its "designated market maker," a critical role when a stock starts trading. A DMM is an experienced trader who supervises the trading of a company's stock on the NYSE. If technical problems arise, the NYSE uses DMMs to bypass electronic trading systems, allowing humans to trade a company's stock. That is not possible on all-electronic stock exchanges such as the Nasdaq.
Twitter got its start 7 years ago, first with Jack Dorsey and then Evan Williams as CEO. Its current chief is Dick Costolo, a former Google executive who once aspired to be a stand-up comedian. On March 21, 2006, Dorsey posted the world's first tweet: "Just setting up my twttr." Noah Glass, who helped create Twitter -but is not mentioned in the company's IPO document - posted the same words just 10 minutes later.
Since then, the social network that lets users send short messages, or "tweets," in 140-character bursts has attracted world leaders, religious icons and celebrities, along with CEOs, businesses and a slew of marketers and self-promoters. Twitter now has more than 230 million users, more than three-quarters of them outside the U.S.


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A copyist's score of Beethoven's String quartets, Opus 18, no. 1-6, and Opus 74, from 1816
ABSms5. This score (252, [49] p.) was copied by "J. Reed" in 1816, possibly from the Clementi editions of the parts that were published in London in 1811. This manuscript pre-dates the earliest printed scores which were issued by Johann André of Offenbach in 1829 and 1933. Acquired from William Reeves in 1991. M1C0002.
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With all of the focus in the current political debate on the economy, you'd think the candidates — all candidates — would be talking in earnest about how, and why, a robust economy can and cannot help the people living with very little income. After 33 years of working on poverty issues, I can tell you that things have almost never been worse. Currently 104 million people live with incomes below twice the poverty level ($38,000 for a family of three). I try to make sense of that number this way. Imagine that every one of the 100,000 people in Boulder has almost no discretionary income after paying for rent, food, transportation and health care. That's a lot of people living on the economic margin — every single person in Boulder. Now imagine that phenomenon replicated in 1,000 cities of the same size. One Boulder of 100,000 times 1,000 gets you 100 million people in poverty. That's what's going on in the richest nation on earth. This is simply not right.
Six million households have income that comes exclusively from food stamps. Twenty million people live in deep poverty. And the United States has the highest rate of child poverty in the industrialized world.
So what are the candidates saying? First, not much at all. The growing rate of poverty is not a serious concern in this campaign. You might remember Romney famously saying "I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there." Clearly, the safety net is a place that Romney knows very little about.
His prescription to end poverty begins and ends with job creation and a strong economy. There's no doubt that a strong economy is one of the best anti-poverty strategies that we have. But to suppose that a strong economy with significant job creation is a comprehensive strategy is recklessly simplistic. And, add to that a running mate that wants to launch millions more into poverty by reducing the safety net to the bone and we have a formula for suffering.
A little known fact about poor people is that the majority of them are working. The instruction to "get a job" falls flat, and the invective to do what it takes to get a better job has some problems. Peter Edelman, in his landmark book on poverty "So Rich, So Poor; Why It's So Hard to End Poverty in America" argues that we have to face the fact that we have become a low-wage nation. We have to do something differently to increase the number of better-paying jobs; and to increase the wages of the jobs we already have. Wages have been relatively stagnant for the bottom half of the wage-earners. In fact, wages have increased less than 7 percent in real terms since 1973, less than 1/5 percent annually. Contrast this with the well-known data that the income of the top one percent has increased by 275 percent in the same time frame.
The truth is that the vast majority of people who have been characterized as "victims and takers" are elderly, disabled, returning veterans or working. Do we really want to punish these folks because they're old or injured or less skilled? What kind of nation would call someone living on social security and unable to afford housing and health care at the market price a victim and a drain on society?
The enduring words of FDR continue to ring true for me. "The test of our progress is not whether we provide more to the people who have much; but whether we provide enough to the people who have little." As the rich accelerate the rate at which their wealth increases, it is truly now done at the expense of those who have so little. This has become a moral issue. We have a choice in this election to turn the tide.
Betsey Martens, of Boulder, submitting this commentary as a private citizen and not as a representative of Boulder Housing Partners.


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Groupon may have been one of the least-known companies to advertise on Super Bowl Sunday, but it's getting a lion's share of the day-after buzz.
Too bad it's for the wrong reason.
The online deals site managed to attract the scorn of customers, brand experts and even some Chinese residents with a pair of ads that seemed to make light of the fraught political situation in Tibet and deforestation in Brazil.
On Monday, Groupon founder Andrew Mason responded to the criticism, writing on the company blog that the ads were meant to highlight causes it finds important, and not to offend people or trivialize the causes.
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In the Tibet ad, sweeping views of Tibet and a serious voiceover about the troubles facing the region gives way to Timothy Hutton gloating about a Groupon deal he got for Tibetan food.
In the other ad, Elizabeth Hurley narrates a voiceover on the Brazilian rainforest before concluding cheerily that not all deforestation is bad, referring to a Brazilian bikini wax.
(You can watch and rate all the Super Bowl ads here .)
A slew of Twitter posts complained that the ads were offensive and off the mark, drowning out those who thought they were funny.
"Well. Off to buy a new #Chrysler, drink a #Coke, switch to #Verizon, unsubscribe to #Groupon and fire #GoDaddy. Night #superbowl#brandbowl" @Reputationista, aka reputation counselor Linda Locke, tweeted.
New Yorker writer Tad Friend tweeted "groupon's tibet commercial was so appalling it made me cancel their daily email; it turned a vague dislike into enmity."
Others began tweeting faux Groupon ads, taking a similar tack with issues as global warming, homelessness and crime rates.
A slew of negative Twitter posts is one thing, but others questioned whether the ads could have serious consequences for the fast-growing company's international expansion.
NBC's Adrienne Mong, writing on the Behind the Wall blog, said the ads "managed to do the seemingly impossible: unite the Free Tibet crowd with China nationalists in their outrage at the commercial."
The website paidContent.org was one of many to compare the ads to fashion retailer Kenneth Cole's flubbed Twitter post last week. That retailer was lambasted for appearing to make light of the protests in Egypt by joking that they were rallying over the company's products.
The ad controversy comes just months after Groupon reportedly rebuffed a buyout offer from Google — a master at the Super Bowl ad — and amid rumors that Groupon may be prepping for an initial public offering .
Chicago-based Groupon has traditionally reveled in its quirky nature. On a "Today" interview late last year, company CEO Mason deflected a question about Google's rumored offer with a meandering story about his childhood .
In a blog post on its website, Groupon conceded that Super Bowl ads are hard to do well and noted that "Our peculiar taste in humor made it really hard for outside agencies to come up with concepts we liked."
The company said it settled on the mockumentary format because of its philanthropic origins. The ads on its website feature links to donate to the causes the ads makes light of.
"Since we grew out of a collective action and philanthropy site (ThePoint.com) and ended up selling coupons, we loved the idea of poking fun at ourselves by talking about discounts as a noble cause," the company said in the post.
Some users said they liked the ads. But even on its own turf, Groupon was drawing criticism.
One user commented: "You guys have a fine coupon site. Probably, though, you should stay out of politics."
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Urban Meyer stood at the podium, hands on either side of the glass perimeter around the mic as he addressed his three-game suspension.
His left hand twitched almost the entire time, and he rarely looked up from the prepared statement laid out before him. When he returned to his seat to answer questions from the press, he seemed out of focus, repeatedly requiring the questions to be asked again.
Ohio State's head football coach had been at the Longaberger Alumni House for nearly 11 hours, and the outcome of the investigation into his knowledge of domestic abuse by his former assistant coach did not seem to be something he favored.
"I trust and support our president," Meyer responded when asked if he agreed with the suspension.
His appearance at the press conference could be interpreted differently by many. Some might say he seemed tired. Some would say angry. Some might even say nervous.
One thing Meyer certainly was not: remorseful.
Throughout the press conference, Meyer avoided uttering the name of Courtney Smith, the ex-wife of his former wide receivers coach Zach Smith. And then he was asked if he had a message for Courtney specifically.
"Well, I have a message for everyone involved in this. I'm sorry we're in this situation," Meyer said. "And I'm just sorry we're in this situation."
Meyer's seemingly nervous tics and apparent lack of focus might be open for interpretation, but less so are the messages he sent by not mentioning Courtney by name and the findings in the investigative report.
The "summary of findings," released by Ohio State after the press conference on Wednesday, found Meyer frequently sided with his former coach than with his coach's wife.
The first instance of this came in 2009 when Zach Smith was arrested for allegedly throwing his wife into a wall when he brought a female co-worker home to sleep on the couch after a party. Courtney Smith decided not to pursue charges.
The report said in 2009 that both Meyer and his wife, Shelley, "took away from the 2009 events that Courtney Smith was not being entirely truthful when she called 911 to have Zach arrested."
Then, between 2015 and 2016, the report said the Powell Police Department and the Delaware County prosecutor conducted an investigation into domestic abuse allegations against Zach Smith. The report said the university's then-Title IX deputy coordinator for athletics told athletic director Gene Smith and Meyer about the investigation, to which Meyer and Gene Smith responded by telling Zach Smith that if he ever hit Courtney or if he is charged, he would be fired.
But Courtney Smith brought the allegations to Shelley Meyer over text message. Shelley and Urban Meyer both said she never showed him the messages, but the report said "given the closeness of their relationship and Shelley's concerns," the group believed it was likely the two discussed the messages.
The day Zach Smith was fired, at 7:35 p.m. on July 23, Shelley sent a text to Urban Meyer saying she was "worried about Zach's response," the report said.
"He drinks a lot and I am just not sure how stable he will be. Afraid he will do something dangerous. It's obvious he has anger/rage issues already," she said to Urban Meyer in the text, to which he did not respond.
In its conclusion, the summary said that both Meyer and Smith "believed in good faith that they did not have sufficient information to trigger any reporting obligation," the pair "viewed the issue too narrowly through the lens of law enforcement."
"Both should have made some report of Zach Smith's potential violation of the domestic violence laws, which was the subject of the law enforcement investigation they came to know about in late October 2015," the findings said. "Such reports would have been made to the Athletic Compliance Office and, for AD Smith, the Office of University Compliance and Integrity."
As rape survivor and speaker Brenda Tracy told The Lantern about her visit back in July, Meyer's comments at Big Ten Media Days are "really indicative of a huge misunderstanding of the dynamics of domestic violence."
"There's some education that needs to happen there and I think that it would be good for people to educate themselves; reach out to people like me, reach out to advocates in your community," she said.
That, combined with the findings of the report and Meyer's comments during his press conference, paints a picture of someone who, at best, does not understand how to properly handle a situation like this. Meyer allowed his loyalty toward former head coach Earle Bruce, Zach Smith's grandfather, to cloud his judgment of Smith, the report said, and give him more chances to remain an assistant coach than would likely have been afforded another coach.
Who knows if Meyer was frustrated by the suspension or just tired when he seemed out of sorts in his press conference. But he certainly seemed to feel no remorse for Courtney Smith.
Perhaps she thought she had been untruthful, not worth believing. Perhaps he still felt disappointed in Zach Smith, the grandson of his former mentor.
Regardless, the picture he painted at the press conference and that the reports seem to show is not a glowing one of Meyer. And it's possible this will be a stain on his legacy for years to come.


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Science Meets Spirituality — The Case Against Divorce Courts
by: Bruce Peterson on August 27th, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Possibilities for hope and healing are glimmering amid the dark violence and greed of our world: a deepening environmental consciousness, a more sophisticated movement for nonviolent communication and peace, a growing acceptance of gay marriage, and even a widening commitment to corporate responsibility, to name a few. Our task as spiritual activists is to articulate the common spiritual dimension in all these areas and to show that spiritual energy will light the path forward. Taming the ego and finding the deep human connections underneath, and trusting in a power and presence beyond the material world, are the essential ingredients for tikkun olam, healing and restoration, in the 21st century.
Introducing spiritual concepts into policy discussions is not easy, but fortunately science is on our side. The latest developments in physics, biology, neuroscience, and psychology all confirm the fundamental connection of all humans and the centrality of consciousness to existence. Now we can talk hard science as well as soft-hearted spirituality in advocating for change.
My judicial career has been focused in family law, which is hopelessly behind in coping with 50% divorce rates and 40% unmarried parent rates. Family fragmentation on this scale, the worst in the world, is going to have devastating social consequences unless we soon develop more child-friendly legal and social structures.
In this talk, drawing on the piercing legal critique developed by my friend and Tikkun editor Peter Gabel, and the latest scientific evidence brilliantly summarized by Lynn McTaggart in her new book, The Bond, (referring to the bond between people) I offer a vision of divorce without courts. The substantive issue–humanizing the divorce process–is terribly important. Equally important is that this kind of spiritual analysis can be applied to many other issues. Watch it and tell me what you think! My email is email@example.com.


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Black Canyon Sunset
This photo was taken along Colorado State Highway 92 a little west of the Blue Mesa Reservoir dam. This is the area where the Black Canyon begins, or at least what you can see that wasn't flooded upstream when the Blue Mesa dam on the Gunnison River was completed in 1965. Three reservoirs along the Gunnison make-up the Wayne N. Aspinall Storage Unit - Blue Mesa, Morrow Point and Crystal. The area that surrounds the reservoirs is collectively known as the Curecanti National Recreation Area. Immediately below Crystal Reservoir is where the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park begins. The body of water that is seen in the photograph is Morrow Point Reservoir.
There are some fantastic overlooks along this section of highway and you can creep right up to the edge of the canyon. Be careful as there are no guard rails in place.
Grand Stand
The Grand Teton range provides a spectacular backdrop to a small stand of fall color aspen trees.
Taking a Break
This bull moose was hanging out with four or five cows near the Gros Ventre River outside of Grand Teton National Park. We stayed and watched for 20 minutes or so and then left him to enjoy his break. The fact that is had started to rain did not deter him but did have a bearing on our decision to find the warmth of our jeep heater!
My wife saw her first. We had just turned around at the Two Oceans Lake trailhead and were headed back down the muddy road with the same name. Earlier we had been a part of a bear jam that witnessed Bear 610 and her two cubs up among the aspen trees (they never really came out for a clear photo op) and decided to move on. This young sow was rooting around looking for tasty morsels and actually got quite close to our jeep. She never seemed bothered or upset by us or the other vehicles that began to gather around.
The gentleman in front of us gave us his opinion (he appeared to be knowledgeable about the bears and said he did wildlife photo workshops in the area) that the only reason that 610 tolerated this one's presence so close to her current set of cubs was that she was one of her cubs from 2011. I explained to him that I had been in the park in 2011 and was able to capture 399 with her three cubs. He then said that 399 lost one of her cubs right after my previous visit and 610 "adopted" that one and cared for her. Could this be one of the cubs that I saw four years ago and now was all grown up and ready to carry on the traditions of 399 and 610? No one really knows for sure, but I like to think that this is one of those cute little cubs I saw. In any event she is a beautiful young grizzly and I love the way her fur looks in the morning rain.
Head Games
A pair of pronghorn bucks joust for fun on a warm summer morning. During the rut, these games take on a more serious tone as they compete for the right to court the ladies.
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
This Yellow -crowned Night Heron was walking and stalking along the shoreline in Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. Light reflecting off of mangroves and the action of the waves created an almost surreal background.


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This is Irritating little Chihuahua at six weeks, January of 1999. She is eleven years old this month, and she has her daily exercise routine.
It consists of sleeping, and
going outside and surveying her driveway, from the great sniffing of automobile tires down to the Yucca plant. I have yet to figure out what is so intriguing about the Yucca, as it does not seem a normal "pee" spot to me, but it is on her daily route.
It is also on her daily route to debate whether to go on down the driveway to the road. She will look back, to see if we are watching, go a few trots, stop and look back. This continues until I rap on the window or yell at her. Then, she ambles off into the yard as if, "No, I never intended on going down the driveway. I know my boundry."
The rest of the day is taken up with sleeping with nose buried,
and begging for food, and sleeping. Mostly sleeping.
Oh, and there is the occasional — jump up and give me a dirty look because she swears I touched her haunches, when she actually has a flea.
Before I am yelled at, she has a frontline flea application monthly, as well as her heart worm pill. She has had neurological problems with other flea applications, so Frontline it is. This was working well for her until the St. Bernard family decided to eat our garbage and deposit their "city of fleas" in our yard. They DO NOT get flea applications. Chihuahua added the garbage cans to her morning run as those St. Bernard's leave behind all kinds of things, including their fleas.
The St. Bernard's eating the lid of the garbage can, to circumvent the ties and boards and anything else we could find to keep them out, finally resulted in putting the garbage cans in my studio (which I rarely use in winter). The city of fleas resides on the ground yet, as well as the smells do.
Twice a day I comb her with a frozen flea comb, catch the fleas that freeze on it, and put them in the freezer of doom; a disposable container in the freezer. I know this is wierd, but, yes, I have a container of frozen fleas in my freezer (Try saying that three times fast.). On top of which, sits her flea comb. Someday the City of fleas will all die —– I hope.
So, back on topic, the Chihuahua sleeps, eats, poops, and sleeps all day. For ten minutes, at night, she also plays with her Taco Belle Chihuahua. Taco Belle Chihuahua has more sewn body parts than you can imagine. Irritating Chihuahua loves to grab it by the neck and try to knock herself sensless with it.
My fear, the year we had floods, was that our home would be flooded, fall into the pond and the Taco Belle Chihuahua would be history. I have searched ebay, Good Will and yard sales for a back-up Christmas Taco Belle dog. Chihuahua has a basket of stuffed toys and will occasionally play with the Turkey Buzzard and rarely with the cat mouse toy. Taco Belle Chihuahua is her love.
Now, we have found another exercise outlet for Chihuahua: The Wii.
Yes, Gaffer brought a Wii home. One of the games sounds rather like a bark, so she stands on the couch and barks back at the Wii. But, bowling drives her nuts. It took her three hours to figure out they were not throwing food for her. She loves her Wii. She does not understand it, but she loves it.
This is Skeeter, trying to communicate with the blue jean leg of the Wii player. She is either saying, "Okay, where is the treat you have been throwing for three hours?" or "GO TO BED!"


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Palestine: Closing of tourist places in Gaza for non-compliance with Islamic customs
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) is gravely concerned over the unjustified intervention of the Ministry of Interior into public freedoms, closing a number of tourist places in Gaza City, imposing restrictions on their work and arresting one of these places' owners under the pretext of gender mixture and non-compliance with the Islamic customs. PCHR calls upon the government in Gaza to take all necessary measures to ensure and respect public freedoms which are constitutionally guaranteed under relevant international standards.
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, during September 2010, the Ministry of Interior in Gaza closed a number of resorts, including cafés and restaurants, in Gaza City under various pretexts, and imposed restrictions on their work. The Orient House Hotel and Restaurant, Gaza Sky Restaurant and Café, Crazy Water Park and al-Sammak Restaurant were among the ones that were closed. They are all located on the beach in the west of Gaza City.
In his testimony to PCHR, Ahmed al-Yazji, Director of the Orient House Hotel (previously known as the Beach), said that, in the last week of Ramadan, the Ministry of Interior had sent them a notice banning any parties without obtaining prior permission from the Palestinian police. Al-Yazji added:
"We obtained the license from the police to hold a party on Sunday, 12 September 2010. During the party, eight armed persons wearing civilian clothes came and introduced themselves as members of the General Investigation Bureau (GIB). They moved among the customers and found a lady smoking hubly bubbly. As a result, they prevented her from smoking although her husband was accompanying her. They confiscated my ID card and requested me to refer to al-'Abbas police station. At approximately 15:15 on Tuesday, 14 September 2010, I went to al-'Abbas police station to take my ID card, but they requested me to sign an oath (obliging me to abide by the closure decision, which was issued by the Chief of the Palestinian Police, for three days starting on Wednesday, 15 September 2010, due to violating our Islamic customs and Palestinian traditions). When I refused to sign the oath, they threatened to detain me. So, I signed and left without taking my ID card."
Earlier, at approximately 21:00, on Tuesday 7 September 2010, a force of the GIB broke into al-Sammak Restaurant in the west of Gaza City, where a cultural evening for the Film Club was held. The force asked to stop the cultural evening's activities and requested the attendees to leave immediately although the organizers had informed the GIB members of obtaining a license in advance. The restaurant's owner, Mo'een Abu al-Khair, stated to PCHR:
"I intervened to know the reason of preventing the cultural evening. The GIB members told me that it was mixed and they are against gender mixture. They asked me about my name and career, and then requested me to go with them. They transported me to Ansar security compound in the west of Gaza City and imprisoned me until the next day after beating me. Before I was released, they forced me to sign an oath obliging me to show commitment to the law and public order and to pay 10,000 NIS in case of breach."
In another testimony, one of those who are responsible for Gaza Sky Restaurant said:
"At approximately 23:30, on Wednesday 1 September 2010, a person in civilian clothes and riding a motorbike came and introduces himself as a member of the GIB. He informed us of the decision closing the restaurant for three days starting on 2 September 2010 and that we had to abide by the decision. On the following day, I headed to the GIB office to find out the reason of closure. The officer said that the restaurant had held a party on 22 July 2010, where the party was mixed and hubly bubbly was served for women. On 4 September 2010, I went again to the GIB office, but they asked me to sign an oath obliging me to abide to (non-mixture, not to serve hubly bubbly to women and to pay 12,000 NIS in case of breach) although they were previously informed that there is a section for families and another one for men."
In the same context, on 5 September 2010, the Attorney General in Gaza issued a decision closing Crazy Water Park for 21 days, as the police and a force of the GIB headed on the same day to the Park and closed it. When the Park's director contacted governmental bodies, he was informed that the reason of closure was for digging an artesian water well in the Park without obtaining an official license in advance. The Palestinian police and GIB went to the Crazy Water Park on 19 August 2010 and informed them of the decision issued by the Minister of Interior to close the Park for three days. The Park's director went to GIB office to know the reason of closure, and then he was forced to sign an oath to abide to (non-mixture, not to serve hubly bubbly to women and to pay 10,000 NIS in case of breach)."
PCHR is gravely concerned over the unjustified intervention into public freedoms through closing a number of resorts in Gaza City and imposing restrictions on their work, and:
1) Calls upon the government in Gaza to take all necessary measures to ensure and respect public freedoms which are constitutionally guaranteed under the relevant international standards;
2) Believes that intervention of GIB and moving around resorts is unacceptable, unjustified, makes these resorts infamous and scares customers to be infamous as they visit such places. It further stresses that such places are private ones and they can only be searched with a permission from the Attorney General and according to the law. PCHR also stresses the rule stating that the person is innocent until he is proved to be guilty under legal measures and just trial, and that not all persons are suspected in the eyes those who are responsible for law enforcement until these persons are proved to be innocent;
3) Believes that using loose words (mixture, customs and traditions) to restrict work in such resorts constitutes a violation of public freedoms, and that the relationship between the government and civilians is governed by the rule of law and the laws in force in the Palestinian Authority which organize punishments for each violation or crime, and that such measures violate the laws in force, which must be implemented in accordance with the constitution.
4) Emphasizes that private meetings and similar parties, which are held in closed places, are not included in the Act on Public Meetings # 12 of 1998, and they can be held without the presence of police officers according to article 26/5 of the Basic Law which states that "Private meetings can be held without the presence of police officers as long as they are held in accordance with the law."
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New missile interceptor stationed to defend Air Force One against Obama-backed militants in Syria
Paul Joseph Watson
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March 13, 2013
Israel is stationing a new Iron Dome missile interceptor at Ben Gurion International Airport in preparation for next week's visit by President Obama as a defense mechanism against a potential attack by the very same terrorists Obama supports in Syria.
"The innovative counter-missile weapon is to be deployed there, not just as a spectacle to honor the US president for his contribution to its development, but out of necessity for his safety," reports DebkaFile. "Air Force One might be seen as fair game for the ground-to-ground missiles wielded by Al Qaeda units fighting Assad in Syria and its affiliates in the Sinai Peninsula at the very moment that the US President steps down to the strains of the IDF welcoming band."
The fear is that Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorists who have poured into Syria to lead rebels in the fight against Bashar Al-Assad over the last 12 months could target Air Force One using missiles loaded with poison chemicals.
The newly positioned Iron Dome will remain in place for three days while Obama visits Israel and Jordan. Existing missile defense systems positioned north and south of Tel Aviv were deemed insufficient to protect against the possibility of a rocket attack targeting Obama's plane.
The spectacle of Israel having to put new security measures in place to protect Obama from the very same terrorists benefiting from his administration's support of the insurgency in Syria is absurdly ironic.
Although the administration was forced to list Jabhat al-Nusra, a group responsible for killing US troops in Iraq, as a terrorist organization back in December, 29 different US-backed Syrian opposition groups immediately responded by pledging their allegiance to the Al-Qaeda-affiliated outfit.
Numerous reports confirm that Al Nusra is now the leading front line fighting force in Syria and is commanding other rebel groups.
Jabhat al-Nusra is an offshoot of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, another group responsible for killing US troops in Iraq, which recently claimed responsibility for the slaughter of 9 US-trained Iraqi soldiers along with 48 Syrian troops.
Al Nusra has been responsible for innumerable terrorist attacks, including targeting schools, beheadings, and has been filmed on several occasions torturing captured civilians its members accuse of working for Assad. The group recently claimed responsibility for a bus bombingwhich killed 60 civilians.
Despite efforts by some Syrian rebel groups to distance themselves from Al Nusra, numerous videos have emerged of FSA militants and their supporters burning US flags, chanting anti-American slogans and singing the praises of Osama Bin Laden while glorifying the 9/11 attacks.
Recent reports confirm that US Special Forces and contractors are training Syrian rebels in Jordan, militants who will almost immediately fall under the command of Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists once they enter Syria. The US has also looked the other way when American citizens who fight alongside terrorists – people like and Eric Harroun and Matthew VanDyke – fly around the world and re-enter the United States.
The Obama administration's prosecution of the war on terror has lost all credibility. After some of the same Libyan militants the US helped overthrow Gaddafi attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, Israel is now being forced to defend Obama against the same terrorists his administration has backed with hundreds of millions of dollars in Syria.
Paul Joseph Watson is the editor and writer for Infowars.com and Prison Planet.com. He is the author of Order Out Of Chaos. Watson is also a host for Infowars Nightly News.
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Many of the grain crops and, later, tobacco for Dinsmore Homestead were raised on the other side of Burlington Pike. The road itself did not exist until after the death of James Dinsmore. It is not known for sure when the tobacco barn was constructed because we do not know when the family began raising the crop that became so closely associated with rural life in Kentucky. What is certain is that soon after Julia Dinsmore began managing the farm in 1873, the tenants were raising that crop in addition to wheat, corn, and oats. Down the hill from the barn was the basket shop where German immigrant tenants produced hundreds of clothes and market baskets each year. James Dinsmore had been raising osier willows since moving to Kentucky. Initially, he sold the willows in Cincinnati and they were made into baskets there, but by the early 1850s he had several men move onto his farm as tenants and they produced the baskets that Dinsmore sold from Pittsburgh down to St. Louis. Julia Dinsmore ended the business when she took over management, so the basket-makers moved to Petersburg and Belleview Bottoms and continued to make baskets there. Boone County roads named after some of these immigrants are a reminder of their continued presence here: Maurer and Deck Lanes. The basket shop was later used as a school and occasionally as a tenant house.
At the edge of the grass line was a large sheep barn. The stone foundation of this barn is still visible if you are near it. James Dinsmore's move to Boone County was partially motivated by the idea of raising cashmere sheep and angora goats and he had over one hundred and fifty of them according to the 1850 Census. The sheep barn also served as a shelter for the cattle on the farm, of which there were about ten. This building was torn down in the 1950s when the farm ceased raising crops.


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The land where hundreds of the Nassar family's grape and apricot trees were bulldozed by the Israeli military in May 2014.
"Building is our answer to murder,"
Naftali Bennett during his visit to the Gush Etzion settlement bloc in the West Bank on 1 September. Bennett, the Israeli Minister of Economy and Trade, was referring to a government proposal to annex 400 hectares of land south of Bethlehem which was presented the day before. He linked the land-grab to the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah earlier this summer in the same region, suggesting the land-grab to be a measure of retribution.
The recent declaration of state land is meant to strengthen the small settlement of Gva'ot, which was established in 1984 and hosts about ten families at the moment. It is also a way to connect the surrounding settlements of Beitar Illit, Neve Daniel, Rosh Tzurim and El'Azar to South-Jerusalem,
Yariv Oppenheimer, director of Peace Now. Peace Now closely monitors and protests the growth of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The organization
the recent confiscation in the Gush Etzion region the largest land-grab since the 1980s.
The Gush Etzion region is already home to several thousand settlers. More than 45,000 settlers live in the settlement of Beitar Illit alone, even though the United Nations
the city, like all of the settlements throughout the West Bank and East-Jerusalem, illegal in 1979.
Yoav Mordechai, head of the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is part of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, disputed the illegality of the land claim. He
that thorough research had been done into the land's ownership and that Palestinians that claim to own the confiscated land have 45 days to appeal the decision.
An expensive legal battle
For Daoud Nassar, 43, the story hits very close to home, both literally and figuratively. The Nassar family owns about 100 acres of land in the Gush Etzion region, near the Palestinian village of Nahalin. Standing on the hilltop of his farm, Nassar can see the settlements of Gva'ot, Neve Daniel, Beitar Illit, Rosh Tzurim and El'Azar. Nassar's land was declared state property in 1991 and the legal battle of ownership has been ongoing ever since.
The Israeli Civil Administration initially
as evidence the family's official ownership documents, which were drawn up in 1924, during the Ottoman Period. After appealing the decision, the family was left empty-handed in 2002 when the court decided their land would be taken without further explanation.
The Nassars appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court to force the Military Court to provide an explanation. After several extensions of the Supreme Court's deadline, the State Attorney justified its decision by arguing that the satellite photo of the Nassar farm taken in 1991 did not exactly match the map drawn up in 1924 and that one of the four boundary names had been changed.
Eager to prove that the documents were authentic, the family hired Josef Kraus, an Israeli land surveyor from the Civil Administration. He travelled to Istanbul and London to verify their documents and presented his report in 2004. In this report, he directly tied the Nassars to their land, but at a heavy financial cost of $70,000.
The Israeli State Attorney's Office did not deny the facts of the report, but rather decided to give the Nassars the opportunity to reregister their land. This process, which started in 2007, is still ongoing. In the meantime, the family has spend an astonishing $145,000 on legal costs and forced land surveys.
"They (the Israeli authorities) keep postponing the case, until today. We are still trying to reregister," Daoud Nassar told Palestine Monitor. He is prepared to go "all the way legally."
"I have faith in what we do, but that does not mean things will be achieved here (on short notice). We hope for the best but prepare for the worst," he said.
And on 19 May things got worse indeed, when hundreds of the family's grape and apricot trees were bulldozed by the Israeli military, only weeks before the harvest. The damage is an estimated $15,000 according to an engineer from the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture that surveyed the land on Nassar's request.
"We found (demolition) papers on the land late March, saying the trees were planted on state land. We appealed to the court and our appeal was accepted and signed by the military authorities on the 12th of May," explained Nassar. He added that because the case was pending, the destruction of the trees is considered illegal according to Israeli law. The family appealed to the Israeli Supreme Court, so that "this illegal action (would not) go unpunished". The Israeli military authorities are set to respond to the accusations by 15 September.
"We Refuse to be Enemies"
Irrespective of their seemingly endless legal battles with the Israeli authorities, the Nassar family stays positive. They built 'Tent of Nations', an educational farm, which hosts people year-round to educate them on the situation of Palestinians under occupation. Last year, around 7,000 people visited the farm to volunteer for a couple of days, weeks or months, Nassar told Palestine Monitor. Rather than changing the situation on the ground, he calls it a way of non-violent resistance.
"We are not having peace, because we cannot have peace while living under occupation. But we are trying to widen people's perspective. […] We do not want to blame people, but we want to say: "look, this is the situation and this is what life looks like for a Palestinian under occupation," Nassar said.
When at Tent of Nations, life under occupation is sensible in every aspect. Because of its 'illegal' status, the family is not allowed to build on the land. Volunteers therefore sleep in tents or caves. Already existing buildings are threatened with demolition. "At the moment, we have 13 demolition orders for property on the farm," said Nassar. He started separate court cases for every single one of them, knowing that as long as the legal process is ongoing, the Israeli military has no legal right to carry out the actual orders.
Because the farm has been deemed illegal by Israeli authorities, it cannot access the Israeli water or electricity network. Running water comes from cisterns that collect rain water while solar panels provide electricity. Saving water is key, which is why the farm does not have flush toilets – they've built compost toilets. Interestingly enough, these were designed by an Israeli who used to live in a settlement and visited the farm years ago.
- "This Israeli man learnt about the situation from the other side. He realized there are people, non-Jewish people, who have connections to the land and are trying to protect the land they inherited. He realized that (…) he was living as an occupier in a settlement. He joined a peace group, left the settlement, and helped us with building the compost toilets," Nassar recalled with a smile.
Exceptional cases like this are one the reasons why Daoud Nassar still believes justice will prevail. Explaining the motto of Tent of Nations - 'We Refuse to be Enemies' – Nassar told Palestine Monitor: "We refuse to be victims, we refuse to hate the human, but that does not mean we have to accept the bad actions they do. […] Our goal is to invest our frustration in a constructive way, and the best way is to educate about the occupation."
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Game #10: Tigers at Blue Jays pregame
Detroit (6-3) at Toronto (5-4)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineup:
Curtis Granderson, CF
Placido Polanco, 2B
Ivan Rodriguez, C
Gary Sheffield, DH
Magglio Ordonez, RF
Carlos Guillen, SS
Sean Casey, 1B
Craig Monroe, LF
Brandon Inge, 3B
PITCHING: RHP Jeremy Bonderman
Alex Rios, RF
Matt Stairs, LF
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Gregg Zaun, C
Aaron Hill, 2B
Jason Smith, 3B
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Roy Halladay
NOTES: Toronto placed LF Reed Johnson (sore back) on the 15-day disabled list and planned on recalling OF Adam Lind from Triple-A Syracuse. Lind was en route to Toronto Friday and would be available on Saturday. … The Jays are giving 3B Troy Glaus (sore hamstring and bone spur in left heel) a few games off before deciding whether or not a trip to the DL could be in store for him, too. … Stairs hit second because he owns a .476 career average against Bonderman. … With a short-handed bench, the Jays have P Josh Towers available as a pinch runner. … Prior to the game, Toronto placed RHP Brandon League on the 15-day DL. The league voided his option to allow the move.
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2010 marked a significant milestone in Hitachi's history as our centennial. At a time when Japan was focused on achieving rapid modernization through the widespread introduction of technology from Europe and the United States, Namihei Odaira founded Hitachi with the goal of promoting technology developed in Japan. We refer to this founding philosophy as "The founding spirit of Hitachi," a heritage that lives on, embodied in the words "Harmony," "Sincerity," and "Pioneering spirit." This Hitachi spirit is very important for us even in this day and age.
The Hitachi Group includes many business divisions, companies, many technologies, products and solutions. Nowhere else in the world is there another business group that has such a broad range of diversity. And despite the current unprecedented economic crisis, Hitachi will continue to expand its businesses through global social innovation by focusing on the "creation of environmental value." At the core, this underscores Hitachi's founding philosophy of promoting business strongly and continuously in order to thrive at a steady pace toward the future. This is what truly differentiates Hitachi from all other competitors. Hitachi truly embodies our corporate statement "Inspire the Next" (breathe new life into the next era) by combining "the collective strengths" of the wide range of businesses, technologies and expertise within the Hitachi Group to generate the optimal value for the diverse issues among customers and society at large.
Hitachi's goal is to achieve further growth by looking back to its origins. It is critically important to engage the heart and mind of each and every employee and remind them of our corporate philosophy of "contributing to society through the development of superior, original technology and products." In today's unprecedented economic crisis, which has dramatically changed and changes daily we must be prepared to take immediate action and be ready to respond quickly to our changing society.


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That's what Rutgers recorded in tonight's 66-42 rout of St. Peter's. It's a program record. Five thoughts, five quotes from the RAC:
— This was excellent defense all the way around for RU. Hamady N'Diaye was dominant as expected with a career-high 10 blocks. But the perimeter ball pressure exerted by Mike Rosario, Mike Coburn and James Beatty really made the difference. Wesley Jenkins shot 1-for-17 and Nick Leon was 3-for-12. The Peacocks ended up 17-of-73 (23 percent) from the field.
— Freshman guard Dane Miller (15 rebounds, 4 blocks, 3 assists) is the most well-rounded player in the program. The entry pass he threw on a first-half layup by Jonathan Mitchell had smoke trailing from it.
— St. Peter's plays hard (20 offensive boards) and sound defensively but the Peacocks are challenged offensively and too reliant on Jenkins to put the ball in the basket. Local product Brandon Hall (Colonia H.S.) recored one point, one board and two steals in 15 minutes. We'll be featuring Brandon in an upcoming Collegiate Corner.
— Rutgers has won six straight for the first time since 2001. We know it's come against cupcakes but we're impressed with how the team has responded to Greg Echenique's absence.
— There were about 2,000 people there, and no more than 100 students. Sad.
Hamady N'Diaye: "Coming into today, I wanted the team to understand it's not the holidays yet. Even though it's Christmas, coach said it in the locker room, we still have to take care of business—don't unwrap your gifts yet. We still had to come with intensity."
Mike Rosario on his career-high 28 points: "I was in a rhythm before the game . . . I just felt a different vibe, I guess because I went to get a haircut today. It just felt happy today and I knew I had to pick my team up."
Rosario on N'Diaye: "It feeds off a lot of energy to us because we see how hard that guy works. For him to block so many shots like that, we're so grateful to have a big guy down there to do that because it takes so much pressure off us."
Fred Hill on the defense: "I thought it was outstanding, for the first time, for 40 minutes . . . Leon and Jenkins are really good guards and they can really score. I really think that is where it started. We challenged our guards. In each game we have played this year, there has been one guy who has scored in big numbers for the opposing team, normally a guard. We challenged our guards tonight to be great on the defensive end and challenged the tea to do it for 40 minutes."
Hill on Hamady: "H is healthy. That's first and foremost. I don't think people realized last year the extent of his injury. We didn't talk about it very much because he is a warrior, but he had a disc problem . . . I think you are starting to see a healthy and balanced H. People don't see it all the time because you look at offense, but you are talking about the best shot blocker in the country right now. He had grown and has great timing. He has developed into an athletic seven-footer that can block shots but also a much better defensive player with concepts, timing and knowing when or when not to go after it."


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My favorite talk at Velocity was by Paul Hammond and John Allspaw from Flickr, who are doing real lowercase-a agile:
Here's the video, highly recommended:
"If there's one thing you do, it should be automated infrastructure". This was a refrain through the conference – as Theo Schlossnagle put it, it doesn't matter if it's chef, puppet, bcfg2, cfengine – whatever works for you, just do it.
Some of their techniques:
- One-step build. They literally go to a web page and click a button and watch the build take the full site from soup to nuts.
- Deploys: Who. What. When. You want to make all the meta-details of a deploy easily visible to anyone. Deploy logs are readily accessible.
- Always ship trunk. In a webapp this is possible. It vastly simplifies – everyone knows where to look for what's going out, and what's live.
- Flickr does their branching in the code (take note git people), and these become natural ops levers (i.e. uh-oh turn that feature off / turn it down).
- "Dark launches". Facebook does this too: launch the guts of a new feature with the UI turned off so you can see how the technology works in real production.
- Which results in anticlimactic launches, the best kind
- They roll forward (not back) to turn features off that aren't working.
- "Gather shitloads of metrics". System metrics, app metrics, everything. John has a great writeup on their Ganglia setup in his book.
- Developers watch the metrics just as obsessively as ops. Visualization is a powerful tool used day-to-day by the whole group.
- Developers have a way of putting in their own metrics via a little framework.
- They're all on IRC. This kept coming up at the conference – teams are on some chat tool like IRC, Skype chat LINK, or Campfire LINK.
- Important events are piped into IRC, so you'll be right in the middle of a conversation and an alert will pop in.
- Logs are piped into a search engine so they can find things in the log history, easily.
Culture, philosophy:
- There's an ongoing conversation between dev and ops. They're learning to solve the Flickr problem together. Each side's way of thinking informs the other (major conference theme as well)
- Failure will happen. Develop your ability to respond. Like ER doctors you practice on failures, that makes you better/competent at handling what comes along next.
- In addition to the ops people on call, there's always a developer who has a pager
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A Muslim push to get the U.N. to approve worldwide anti-blasphemy rules has been quietly dropped after the recent murders of two Pakistani politicians who opposed that country's controversial laws.
Pakistan's strict regulations against defaming the Prophet Mohammed or speaking negatively about the Koran have been seriously abused, say opponents.
"A long-term campaign by the U.N.'s large Muslim bloc to impose worldwide blasphemy strictures — like those in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran — was given a quiet burial last week in the Human Rights Council, the U.N.'s main human-rights body," reports author Nina Shea.
She is the director of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom and co-author of Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes are Choking Freedoms Worldwide, published by Oxford University Press.
"At the session that ended in Geneva on March 25, the Organization of the Islamic Conference, sensing defeat, decided not to introduce a resolution calling for criminal penalties," she reported.
The attempt to get U.N. approval "was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini's infamous 1989 fatwa, directing 'all zealous Muslims to execute quickly' the British author Salman Rushdie and others involved with his book The Satanic Verses, reports Shea. "While not explicitly embracing vigilantism, the Saudi Arabia-based organization of 56 member states quickly endorsed Khomeini's novel principle: that Western law should be subject to Muslim measures against apostasy and blasphemy."
The effort caused extreme discomfort at the U.N., says Shea.
"It deviates sharply from the historically rooted object of international human rights protections by addressing the interests of religious institutions and interpretations, rather than the rights of individuals," Leonard Leo, chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, explained to Congress in 2009.
"The coup de grâce for the resolution was the murder this month of Pakistan's renowned minister of minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, because he opposed his own country's blasphemy laws," writes Shea. "His murder followed that of Punjab governor Salman Taseer and the death sentence given for blasphemy to a Christian mother of five, Aasia Bibi, whom Taseer had defended.
"It was now impossible for even the Human Rights Council to ignore the disgrace of the blasphemy laws of Pakistan — the main sponsor of its blasphemy resolutions all these years."


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Life, as we know it, faces total extinction because console owners are still buying physical game discs, not digital copies.
The technology is there, and the hard drive space is there. What are we waiting for? Get rid of physical discs!
If console games went all digital, it's a win-win for developers and consumers. Developers could have infinite copies of a game available to sell, they'd never be out of stock. Consumers could buy games at any time, because they'd never be out of stock. Retro games, out-of-print games, and even unfinished games could be money-makers for developers when consumers want to buy them.
Happier developers, happier consumers. Dr. Grant, my dear Dr. Sattler... Welcome to Jurassic Park!
If games went all digital, console games could be cheaper. Developers could save money because they're not making physical discs. In turn, those savings might be passed onto consumers! No need for used games when developers could hold clearance sales, and pocket the profit. Consumers could get more games more cheaply!
You see the genius in all of this yet? We're gonna make a fortune with this place!
I don't sell video games for living (you do!) so I shouldn't have to tell you this: go 100% digital. Get rid of physical game discs, and make all your games available in your online stores.
That way, we can actually buy and play a game whenever we want, instead of when the store has it in stock.
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I have been writing more about Archer lately because of his monthly updates, and because most of my Ava posts I save for the Defying Disabilities monthly post that I write. But there are several things she has done the past several months that I want to remember.
She is really growing up and doing some fun things. I am always amazed at her! And honestly, I had an unpleasant encounter this week, and it made me realize just how sad some people are, and how privileged I am, to be her mom. And to understand the value of an individual who happens to have special needs.
Ava Moment 1: She was in her room, playing with her blinds. She KNOWS this is against the rules, and she knew she was doing something bad. I was busy at the moment, so I just yelled back to her, "Ava! Get out of your blinds!!!" A few seconds later, she slammed her bedroom door! And went right back to playing in the blinds!
Ava Moment 2: After breakfast, I sent her to her room while I followed after grabbing her clothes out of the laundry basket. When I got to her room, her closet was mostly closed but her little hand was holding the door. I said "Huh. I wonder where Ava went???" With that, she jumped out of her closet, laughed hysterically for a few seconds, then jumped back in!
Ava Moment 3: Tonight, I took the kids to see their grandpa who just had surgery. Cole was already there with his dad, and it isn't often that I attempt to load both kids at the same time. But it just worked out that way. She waited patiently by the garage door while I set the alarm, then she walked to her door all by herself and tried to open the door! I put her in but noticed that her shirt was wet. So I just sat her in her seat while I strapped her brother into his seat and grabbed a fresh shirt. I explained to her what I was doing, as I could see she was concerned that I wasn't going to buckle her in. But obviously, she wasn't happy with my decision because when I got back she had her seat belt straps over her shoulders!
Ava Moment 4: This is less a moment than a new skill. Since Thanksgiving, Ava has sat in a regular dining chair, without any adaptations! She is doing so well! And when finished, she gets up, goes into the living room, and closes the gate behind her!!!
Ava, mommy is so proud of you. And I am so encouraged reading about how close the researchers are to a cure. I cannot wait to hear your voice and have a conversation with you. That is my dream, my #1 on my bucket list. And I pray that it comes true, not just for me, but mostly for you!!!! I love you so very much. And I am blessed to call you my sweet daughter.
Thursday, January 9, 2014
My Sweet Ava
I have been writing more about Archer lately because of his monthly updates, and because most of my Ava posts I save for the Defying Disabilities monthly post that I write. But there are several things she has done the past several months that I want to remember.
Posted by The Brewers at 9:24 PM 3 comments
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Archer is One Year Old!!!
LengthYou are still TALL TALL TALL! You are almost as tall as your sister! It is so funny! You are about the height of a 15-18 month old I think. You are in the 95% for your age, and are often mistaken for being older.
ClothesYou wear all 18-24 months clothing! I finally cleaned out your closet, and did a little shopping for you. Hopefully we have what we need for winter!
NicknamesArch, Bub, Bubs, Bubba, Brother, Chubs, Chunky Monkey, BuddaBall, Chubbers, Archie-Boy (I am the only one who is allowed to call him that...he will NOT be called "Archie" if I can help it!)
- Mama
- Dada
- Bye
- Hi
- Ava (he tries, but it comes out Awa)
- Uh oh
- Bite (comes out "bi bi")
Fun Stuff- some are the same from months 1-11!
-Mommy, Daddy, and Ava
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Don Orsillo: [Zack Greinke] has allowed just one earned run over his last four starts, 29 innings pitched, a 0.31 ERA. Over the last five starts, he has gone 3-0 with a 0.73 earned run average. And he's only gotten 30 runs in 16 combined starts of losses [and no decisions], so if he'd gotten a little bit more run support, you're lookin' a five, six more wins for this guy --NESN then showed a graphic:
Sean Casey: Oh, he's runnin' away with the Cy Young, we're not even having a conversation about who the Cy Young award is if he was getting any run support. I mean, he's 14-8 right now, he could easily be 19-8, 20-8 ... 20-5, win some of those losses ...
1.6 Runs of Support in 8 LossesHow many times can an announcer say a pitcher's win-loss record is "not really indicative" of his actual performance before it dawns on that announcer that maybe a won-loss record is not the greatest barometer for measuring a pitcher's success?
This Season (13 Total Runs)
And how many times can he note that a pitcher threw seven innings of one-run ball and got a loss or allowed seven runs in six innings and got a win before he realizes, you know, W-L is stupid, why can't I use other acceptable ways to describe this pitcher's work?
The answer to those questions remains unknown, because even as announcers say "his record is not really indicative of how he has pitched" -- and Orsillo said those exact words last night about Greinke -- he still goes right back to using W-L as Exhibit A of a pitcher's worth.
I was talking back to the TV last night, trying to somehow nudge Orsillo and Casey along and get them to state a basic truth about W-L -- C'mon, take that next logical step, you can do it! Follow through! Say it! Say it! -- but they did not.
They had the same conversation two more times -- Casey again noting that Greinke would be "running away" with the award if his teammates had only scored more runs on the days he pitched -- when J.D. Drew batted in the second and when David Ortiz was up in the fourth.
Orsillo and Casey (and everyone else out there) are not saying "If he didn't have those four crappy starts, he'd be everyone's choice". In their discussion, Greinke's pitching performance for the entire year remains unchanged. So they are penalizing him -- saying his performance is not as good as it seems or perhaps not deserving of an award -- because of something he has absolutely no control over.
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Mr. Feinberg founded Feinberg Rozen, LLP in 1992. He has been involved in resolving thousands of disputes involving a wide range of interests and clients. In the commercial sector, Mr. Feinberg designed, implemented and administered an ADR settlement Program involving Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, Zurich N.A. Insurance Company and Hurricane Katrina and other Gulf hurricane claimants. He also has served as Distribution Agent for AIG Fair Fund claimants, and has been the Fund Administrator for a variety of claimant funds totaling more than $1 billion. In his capacity as an arbitrator, Mr. Feinberg helped determine the fair market value of the original Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination, and legal fees in Holocaust slave labor litigation.
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For the holiday season I recommend warm, spicy and – for those who like it – gourmand scents. In winter we share more time at home with our family and friends, we like it warm and cozy and that's what a perfume can emphasize.
Are you looking for a special present? Here we go!
For her…
Hermès: Ambre Narguilé
The French term 'narguilé' means water pipe. We get a mix of apple tobacco and winter spices like clove and cinnamon with wonderfully deep amber. The result smells like warm apple pie and surrounds you like a woolen cloud.
Ormonde Jayne: Tolu
A very unique and dark perfume built around tolu resin. Sensual, powdery, ambery, oriental. So sophisticated!
Parfumerie Générale: Praliné de Santal
A very tasty composition, you better be careful, they might try to eat you like a cookie. Praliné de Santal smells like nougat until it settles on a woody base. As a side effect you want to eat chocolate. Thank God it's Christmas and the house is full of sweets!
Olfactive Studio: Chambre Noire
This leather scent was just launched by the new French niche perfume house Olfactive Studio. It is an elegant, feminine evening scent and the mix of leather, incense, jasmine, plum and oriental notes is absolutely stunning!
Farmacia SS. Annunziata dal 1561: Cara
To put it in a nutshell: Cara smells exactly like Turron, the traditional Mediterranean Christmas dessert. A delicate, soft and powdery almond scent, that I prefer to wear just for myself. It feels amazing to lay down on the sofa with a blanket, surrounded by Cara, just doing nothing.
For him…
L'Artisan Parfumeur: Méchant Loup
Méchant Loup (Bad Wolf) is the best choice for a men's winter tale. Hazelnut, cedar, honey and oak moss make a semi-gourmand fragrance, which is warm but at the same time very virile. Little Red Riding Hood would have been impressed. Delicious!
Yves Saint Laurent: M7
M7 was the first men's fragrance by Yves Saint Laurent under the art direction of Tom Ford, at a time when aoud wasn't yet used too frequently by the perfume industry. Alberto Morillas created this highly alluring elixir. For me it is one of the most wearable aoud scents on the market. Sensual, woody and perfect for cold weather. Wear it under your shirt and soft clouds will escape when you dance around the Christmas tree.
Tom Ford: Tobacco Vanille
One of the best tobacco scents ever. No need to say more, bravo Tom Ford!
Lubin: Itasca
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Comme des Garçons: 2
No winter without incense. 2 was created by Mark Buxton and is one of the most beautiful scents I know. It always fascinates me again with its incense-inky-floral attitude. Very unique and alluring on a men's chest in winter. Rather intense but without being offensive.
And now I wish you all a wonderful Christmas. Enjoy the snow or the sun – wherever you are. I want to finish this article with the words of Maya Agelou: "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Make everyone feel happy!
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This optical illusion is a fairly simple one, but it's still a very impressive effect. A triangle and some cunningly positioned diagonal lines are all that's needed for your brain to tilt a perfect level rectangle completely off-kilter.
While this illusion doesn't feature the same level of mindbending insanity as some previous examples, it makes up for it in its sheer audacious simplicity. All it is a few shapes and some lines that disappear and reappear, and yet that's enough for the top rectangle to seem to shift from tilted to parallel with its base and then back to tilted again. The video's creator Greg Ross explains just how it works:
The sets of opposite diagonal lines in this drawing cause us to perceive the top rectangle as leaning toward the right when it really is not. Removing the lines proves that the rectangles are parallel. What also aids in the illusion is the triangle drawn on the right end of the top rectangle (we subconsciously perceive it as weighing down the right side...but only when the diagonal lines are there).
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SANDY, Utah (Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012) – Real Salt Lake (13-10-3, 42 points, West #2) lost in brutal fashion on Saturday night, conceding a stoppage-time winner to fall 2-1 to FC Dallas (8-11-8, 32 points, West #6) in front of a sold-out crowd at Rio Tinto Stadium. The loss is the fourth-straight across all competitions for Real Salt Lake.
MF David Ferreira scored the decisive goal for Dallas, finishing a counterattack by collecting MF Brek Shea's pass and slamming a 15-yard shot inside the top right corner in the 94th minute.
RSL ran out a makeshift starting lineup, beginning the game with captain Kyle Beckerman, leading scorer Álvaro Saborío and regular MF Will Johnson on the bench after all three played 90 minutes for their respective national teams on Wednesday.
Despite the provisional first XI, RSL was the better team for the entire game, dictating the play and creating a multitude of chances. The Claret-and-Cobalt had its first opportunity in the 11th minute. MF Javier Morales played FW Fabían Espíndola in on the left edge of the area, allowing the Argentine striker to rip a first-time shot to the near post that Dallas GK Kevin Hartman parried away for a corner.
The match got a bit heated in the next 15 minutes. Both sides went in hard on several challenges, leading to some frayed nerves on the field and three yellow cards for RSL – one each for DF Tony Beltran, DF Kwame Watson-Siriboe and Espíndola.
Espíndola nearly put RSL up 1-0 in the 30th minute. He collected MF Yordany Alvarez's pass at the top-right corner of the 18 and cut in on his left foot, ripping a low 20-yarder to the near post that Hartman tipped away with a fine diving save.
Real Salt Lake kept the pressure on after Espíndola's chance, coming close again in the 35th minute. Beltran had the chance, absolutely ripping a long range curler from the right side that Hartman did incredibly well to tip away.
Beltran's chance took the game into halftime, which saw both sides make a change. RSL brought Saborío on for the yellow-carded Espindola and Dallas inserted FW Jackson for FW Jonathan Top.
RSL started the second half brightly, attacking the Dallas goal with tenacity. The Claret-and-Cobalt had its first chance of the second frame in the 51st minute, when Saborío dribbled into the left side of the area before hitting a low shot that the onrushing Hartman blocked.
Saborío had a golden opportunity in the 55th minute, getting on the end of a Morales free kick for a free header from the penalty spot. Unfortunately, the Costa Rican international couldn't do anything with the chance, meekly heading wide of the left post.
Dallas made RSL pay for not taking advantage of its opportunities in the 61st minute, when MF Fabian Castillo scored against the run of play to put FCD up 1-0. Castillo combined with fellow Colombian MF David Ferreira on the play, connecting on a give-and-go with the 2010 MLS MVP to round Beltran on the left side of the box before curling a shot inside the far post from a tight angle.
Dallas got a boost from the goal, getting good looks in both the 68th and 72nd minutes. RSL GK Nick Rimando came up big on the second chance, diving to his right to keep out a low drive from Castillo.
RSL turned the pressure way up after Castillo's 72nd minute opportunity and came incredibly close to equalizing in the 75th minute. Watson-Siriboe got on the end of a Morales corner at the right post and hit a powerful header to the far post only for FCD DF Jair Benitez to clear the ball off the line.
The Claret-and-Cobalt didn't have to wait much longer for the equalizer, getting a goal from Saborío on the ensuing corner to tie the game at 1-1. Morales had the assist, hitting a corner to the right post that Saborío nodded past Hartman and inside the far post.
RSL pushed hard for the win after Saborío's goal, but couldn't quite find it, eventually getting caught out on another counter to set up Ferreira's winner. Shea led the break, collecting a pass on the left wing and switching fields to Ferreira to set the Colombian up for his screamer of a goal.
The Claret-and-Cobalt return to action on Tuesday, when they'll host Panamanian champs Tauro FC in a crucial CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage battle at Rio Tinto Stadium.
Click here to access video highlights and the MLSsoccer.com MATCHCENTER for RSL-FCD
Real Salt Lake Match Notes – RSL 1-FCD 2
- Saturday's loss is RSL's fourth-straight defeat across all competitions. The team hasn't won a game in over three weeks, last picking up three points in the July 27 2-1 home win over Vancouver.
- Ferreira's stoppage time winner gives FCD a bit of revenge on RSL, which got a stoppage time winner of its own from DF Nat Borchers in the Claret-and-Cobalt's 3-2 home win over Dallas on May 26.
- RSL finishes its regular season series with Dallas with a 1-1-1 mark. As mentioned above, the Claret-and-Cobalt beat FCD at home on May 26 – the sides tied 1-1 in their first meeting of 2012 on April 25 at FC Dallas Stadium.
- Saturday's game kicked off a busy three-game in six-day stretch that will see RSL take on Tauro in the CONCACAF Champions League Group Stage on Tuesday and travel to Philadelphia for a league date with the Union on Friday.
- FW Álvaro Saborío's 76th minute tally gives him 14 goals in league play, four behind San Jose's Chris Wondolowski in the race for the Golden Boot.
- RSL FW and Salt Lake City native Justin Braun made his home debut on Saturday night, coming on in the 67th minute for FW Paulo Jr. Braun, who was acquired on July 11 in a trade with Montreal, had one previous RSL appearance, starting the Claret-and-Cobalt's Aug. 4 loss at Colorado.
- Real Salt Lake had four regulars start on the bench, with captain Kyle Beckerman, leading scorer Alvaro Saborio, MF Will Johnson and DF Jamison Olave all out of the first XI. Beckerman, Saborio and Johnson were available off the bench after going 90 minutes for their respective national teams on Wednesday while Olave was out with a hamstring injury suffered on July 31.
- A very limited number of tickets remain for Tuesday's CCL match against Tauro. Tickets can be purchased online at www.RealSaltLake.com or by calling 801-727-2700 Mon-Sat during business hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Fans can also purchase tickets at the Rio Tinto Stadium box office or the RSL Team Store (10 a.m.-5 p.m.) on the northeast corner of the Stadium.
Goals by Period 1 2 F
Real Salt Lake 0 1 1
FC Dallas 0 2 2
Scoring Summary: FCD – Fabian Castillo (David Ferreira) – 61'
RSL – Álvaro Saborío (Javier Morales) – 76'
FCD – David Ferreira (Brek Shea) – 94+'
Misconduct Summary: RSL – Tony Beltran (Foul) – 14'
RSL – Kwame Watson-Siriboe (Foul) – 20'
RSL – Fabian Espindola (Dissent) – 25'
FCD – Matt Hedges (Foul) – 54'
Real Salt Lake (4-1-2-1-2) – Nick Rimando; Tony Beltran, Kwame Watson-Siriboe, Nat Borchers, Chris Wingert; Yordany Alvarez (Kyle Beckerman, 75'); Ned Grabavoy, Luis Gil; Javier Morales (C); Paulo Jr. (Justin Braun, 67'), Fabian Espíndola (Álvaro Saborío, 46')
Substitutes Not Used: Kyle Reynish (GK), Will Johnson, Jonny Steele, Kenny Mansally
FC Dallas (4-5-1) – Kevin Hartman (GK); Jair Benitez, Matt Hedges (Hernan Pertuz, 73'), George John, Zach Loyd; Fabian Castillo, Julian de Guzman, David Ferreira, Daniel Hernandez (C) (James Marcelin, 62'), Brek Shea; Jonathan Top (Jackson, 46')
Substitutes Not Used: Chris Seitz, Bruno Guarda, Ruben Luna, Carlos Rodriguez
Referee: Juan Guzman
Referee's Assistants: Frank Anderson, Mike Kampmeinert
4th Official: Tyler Ploeger
Attendance: 20,281
Time of Game: 1:54
Weather: Clear and 92 degrees
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